Afflatus Quotes

#1. Academic envelope serves only to protect everything the story says and does not say, an inner afflatus always on the verge of being dispersed at contact with the air, the echo of a vanished knowledge revealed in the penumbra and in tacit allusions. Torn

Italo Calvino

#2. It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

Christina Stead

#3. Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

Thomas Huxley

#4. Thus the great wind, the afflatus, gave breath and turbulence to all life; and inspiration clung to the minds and hearts of men.

Richard Beckham II

#5. Alan Cumming was such a fun guy to watch. I remember he has a song in the first 'Spy Kids' movie, and when Danny Elfman came to set, they were working on the song.

Daryl Sabara

#6. I am too nervous to eat pie.

Raymond Carver

#7. The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

Roger Angell

#8. The great epiphany of man is the recognition of the transience of now.

Beverley Sylvester

#9. The thought of hope is the seed to healing.

Shilpa Menon

#10. She marched along, wondering how it could be that some people had to work their fingers to the bone and risk their lives in order to make a living and others could just sail around in the lap of luxury.

Leslie Meier

#11. Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

Karl Marx

#12. Your mind is a book; God is the pen.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#13. There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it

Alan Sugar

#14. Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.

Helen Fielding

#15. I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.

John Darnielle

#16. If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

Jesse Jackson

#17. Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of.

Gil Gerard